River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1887-10-20
NEWS AND NOTES.

NEWS AND NOTES.
Egypt's cotton crop viii be an aver
age one.
Prince de Talleyrand. of France, is
doing the United States.
At Leipsic, John Neve, the anarchist,
was sentenced to fifteen years imprison-
ment.
In the Bulgarian parliamentary cleo
tons the result is favorable to the
Government.
Mr.. Powderly received nearly $1,000
letters, and answered 10000 of them
within the past year.
General Joseph johnson has con-
tributed 800 to the Lee Monument
fund of Richmond. Va.
Miss Mary L. Booth, of Harpers
Bazaar, has just returned home from q
five months vacation in Europe.
The total assessed value of railroad
property in Illinois is $66,571 1856, an
increase of $3,590,000 over last year.
Maria Edgeworth's Essay on Irish
Bulls, has been advertised among works
recommended for an agricultural
library.
Pope Leo has Entrusted all the ar
rangements in connection with his jub-
lice celebration to a commission of four
Cardinals.
1t is recalled that Horace Greeley
carried all the Sunday papers to church,
a -aS h.. sfna
was finished.
Mgr. Persieo. the Papal Envoy to
Ireland in a sermon at Dublin said he
was gratified at the devotion of the
Irish to the Pope.
An autograph letter from John Bright,
devoted to arbitration between nations,
was read at the meeting of Methodist
ministers in Chicago.
The Merchants & Miners Bank at
Iron Mountain, Mich, has closed. The
cashier is said to be in Canada with a
considerable sum of money.
A story comes from Baden Baden
that Dom Pedro, Emperor of Brazil,
has announced that he will abdicate on
account of impaired health.
Senator Voorhees, has been retained
by the defendants in the contest of Mil
lionaire De Pauw's will. There will
be some fine picking for the lawyers.
Reports from Toblach as to the con-
dition of the Crown Prince of Germany
are very disquieting, and much alarm
is felt in Berlin because of his condition.
The State of Michigan is preparing
to send to Washington statue of Lew
is Cass, to take its place among the
large number now in position in Statu-
airy Hall at the Capitol.
The failure is announced of the
Niobrara Land and Cattle Company,
incorporated at East st. Louis, with
nominal assets of $250,000, on which
% to so per cent will be realized.
James r. Keene has been trading in
oil with luck on his side, of late, and
already prophecies are made that he
will soon initiate Henry Willard by re-
Stunning his old place in Wall street.
The hunters and race-horses belong
ing to Lord Allensbury, who was re-
Gently warned off Newmarket heath by
the Jockey club for instructing a jockey
to pull horse, will be sold Immediately.
Corn according to the Government
report, will yield 20 bushels per acre,
wheat 11.S, oats %, barley 20, and rye
Ills. There is decline in the con-
dition of cotton, buckwheat, and pota-
toes.
The Interstate Commerce Commits
sion is i'll Washington. A number Of
decisions are soon to be delivered. The
annual report of the commission will
suggest to Congress some notifications
of the law.
A colony of negroes is going to
Shasta, Cal, to settle on 1000 acres OF
land above Shingletown. which has been
purchased for that purpose. The colo
nists will come under the leadership of a
minister named Petty.
According to the statistics the
average man throughout the civilized
world annually consumes AS pounds
of grain, 20 pounds of meat, pounds
of butter, and 20 pounds of sugar, of
the total value of Is IS.
William l.. Miller, of Charleston, S.
c., has two immense iron shells. said
to be the first two shots fired at Battery
Wagner at the beginning of the war.
The shells were never exploded; they
weigh 200 pounds each.
Col. A. Andrews, of San Francisco,
a millionaire pensioner of the Mexican
war, pays over his small monthly sti-
pend to a needy veteran who receives
no pension. Some other rich pensioners
should follow his example.
Gen. Phil. Sheridan speaks of the So
called army of the United States as a
very small one; but the real army. he
says, consists of 60.000.000 of people,
and if the people are satisfied with il
nobody has right to complain.
Texas papers say that the Rio Grande
is running so low that it is only ankle
deep, and that it is expected to dry up
altogether before winter. The prospect
is contemplated with alarm by the fruit
raisers and vineyardists of that country.
During the recent dry weather in
Mount Pleasant, Wis, the hub of a
heavy wagon struck a gate post, and
the friction was so great that it set fire
to the post. The gate was burned up
and also the grass for several yards in
the locality.
Clement Baldwin was the son OF
wealthy parents in Ireland and was
reared in luxury and highly educated.
He squandered his money in riotous
living. and now in his old age he works
by the day on the grounds of Union
College, Schenectady.
WHIST, AND DRIVE WHIST.
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